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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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